On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Björn Stenberg wrote:

> With many obscure standard violations occuring by servers and web page
> authors being gracefully handled by curl, wouldn't it be a good idea to
> at least print a warning when these are encountered?

I agree that is a good idea. However, I think it is virtually impossible to
implement, because of various reasons. I think the two biggest are:

* Some things aren't very standardized. Like cookies. There isn't a single
  site or browser that follows the RFC 2109 or the recently posted RFC 2965.
  The 'standard' would in that case be the Netscape cookie spec which feels
  bad.

* The parsers for various things are written to accept standard violations.
  It would be really tricky to add code that detects when the input is not
  following standards.

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/